Abstract Two experiments tested whether feigned memory loss for attitude-relevant actions can cause forgetting and decrease the impact of those actions on subsequently reported attitudes. Compared to participants in a control group, participants in Experiment 1 correctly recalled fewer of imagined attitude-relevant actions for which they feigned memory loss, and also displayed less effect of the imagined actions on their attitudes toward a social group. Compared to participants in a control group, participants in Experiment 2 had no memory impairments for self-generated arguments favorable or unfavorable to capital punishment after feigning memory loss for those arguments, but they displayed a greater effect of the arguments on subsequently reported attitudes. The discussion suggests reasons why results of the two experiments were discrepant.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-01162009-171726 |
| Date | 16 January 2009 |
| Creators | Morin, Amanda Leigh |
| Contributors | Charles Lord |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/msword |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-01162009-171726/ |
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